Characteristics and efficiency of photocatalytic cementitious materials: Type of binder, roughness and microstructure

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 71, Issue , 2015, Pages 124-131

  Jimenez Relinque, E ^a   Rodriguez Garcia, J R ^a   Castillo, A ^a   Castellote, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN EDUARDO TORROJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Microstructure (B); NOx oxidation and self cleaning (C); Photocatalysis (C); Roughness (B); Type of cement (D)

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BINDERS; CEMENTS; CLEANING; DYES; FLY ASH; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORTAR; NITROGEN OXIDES; PORTLAND CEMENT; REDOX REACTIONS; SLAGS;

CALCIUM ALUMINATE CEMENT; CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS; CEMENTITIOUS MATRICES; CEMENTS (D); EFFECT OF ADDITION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PHOTOCATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; SELF CLEANING;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84924248850     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2015.02.003     Document Type: Article

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